winbox-mac

winbox-mac is MikroTik Winbox bundled into macOS app with Wine. Wine is compiled by Gcenx with minimal set of dependencies. Icon is provided by Lucas di Lucca. This is not official MikroTik build and is not related to Mikrotik in any way.

Installation

Can be easily installed with Homebrew Cask:

brew install --cask nrlquaker-winbox

Update

Recommended way to update is to use Homebrew Cask:

brew update
brew upgrade --cask nrlquaker-winbox

Command line arguments

You can pass command line arguments as follow:

open /Applications/Winbox-mac.app --args ip login password

Retina mode

After added support for HiDPI displays in winbox 3.21 now its posible to enable retina mode. It has some issues now, thats why its not enabled by default.

Note

To properly import/export addresses you have to run Winbox-mac.app/Contents/MacOS/startwine from CLI or add /bin/bash to Security & Privacy → Privacy → Full Disk Access. To be able to see hidden files in file choosing dialog press Cmd + Shift + ..

Reporting bugs

Please make sure that you are using bug report template and checklist is complete. Otherwise it may be closed without review.

Contributions are welcomed

If you like this project and you find it useful help me to improve it. First of all check if there are some help needed issues. Or you can improve code or documentation.

Version

Current version is based on Winbox 3.27. Wine version is 6.2 devel.

Please check versioning for versioning scheme explanation.

Changelog

There are two changelogs in this project. One related to Winbox-mac, the other one is for original Winbox.

License

winbox-mac is released under the MIT License